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Tadej Pogacar wins Stage 14, increases lead at Tour de France
Tadej Pogacar used a late surge to win the mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday in Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla D'Adet. ,Pogacar, of Slovenia, pulled away from two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard to win the 199-mile portion in just over four hours and extend his overall lead to...

Pac-12 bowl game agreements to remain through 2025
Former members of the dissolved Pac-12 now playing in the Big 12 will keep their previous bowl game affiliations for the 2024 and 2025 college football seasons, organizers announced Friday.,As an example, the Valero Alamo Bowl previously pitted Big 12 teams against Pac-12 squads. Now, all 12 teams f...

Jasper Philipsen wins second stage in 4 days at Tour de France
Belgium's Jasper Philipsen captured his second stage win in four days on Friday at the Tour de France.,Philipsen, 26, followed up his victory in Tuesday's Stage 10 with another successful sprint to the finish in Stage 13.,The Alpecin-Deceuninck cyclist finished the 165-kilometer flat ride from Agen ...

Roger Goodell: NFL to fight Sunday Ticket ruling; open to private equity ownership
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL plan a renewed fight in a court ruling over the league Sunday Ticket plan that could result in a damages toll over $14 billion. ,Goodell underscored the path to further litigation the NFL plans to take in response to the class-action verdict from a Los Angeles ...

F1 announces sprint calendar for 2025
Formula One will host six sprint races in 2025, kicking off in China, maintaining stops in Miami and Austin, Texas, and returning a popular race to the schedule.,The circuit released the 2025 sprint calendar on Thursday. It features the rebirth of the sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix, taking th...

Biniam Girmay sprints to glory in Stage 12 of Tour de France
Biniam Girmay sprinted to victory over the final straight on Thursday to complete Stage 12 of the Tour de France in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.,Girmay of Eritrea outlasted Wout van Aert of Belgium and Arnaud Demare of France to finish in 4 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds and capture his third stage of the Tou...

Royals rally for 6-4 win over Cardinals in DH opener
Salvador Perez homered and added an RBI single as the visiting Kansas City Royals rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Wednesday afternoon in the first half of a split doubleheader.,Garrett Hampson added a two-run double as the Royals erased a 3-0 deficit to earn their second straight victory...

WVU's Neal Brown: Big 12 deepest conference 'in the entire country'
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark proclaimed his league one of the three best in the land earlier this week, and he has at least one football expert in his corner on that statement: West Virginia head coach Neal Brown.,Brown, fresh off a 9-4 campaign that validated his program in a lot of outsiders'...

Jonas Vingegaard comes back for Stage 11 win at Tour de France
Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard pulled ahead with only 30 kilometers remaining to overtake leader Tadej Pogacar for the victory in the 11th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday.,The Danish cyclist, 27, was coming back from crash-related injuries that left him unable to ride for three months ...

Royals rally for 6-4 win over Cardinals in opener
Salvador Perez homered and added an RBI single as the visiting Kansas City Royals rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Wednesday afternoon in the first half of a split doubleheader.,Garrett Hampson added a two-run double as the Royals erased a 3-0 deficit to earn their second straight victory...

Luis Robert's two-run shot lifts White Sox over Twins in Game 1
Luis Robert smacked a two-run home run and Erick Fedde pitched five shutout innings to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 3-1 win against the visiting Minnesota Twins on Wednesday in the opener of a doubleheader.,Chicago made the most of four hits to stop a three-game losing streak and defeat Minnesota...

Commish: Big 12 will be 'deepest conference in America'
Big 12 football will already look different this fall, but conference commissioner Brett Yormark suggested even more changes could be coming to the growing league over the next few years.,Speaking on Tuesday at the Big 12's media days event in Las Vegas, Yormark outlined his view of the conference's...

Jasper Philipsen wins Stage 10 at Tour de France
Belgium's Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory Tuesday to complete Stage 10 of the Tour de France.,The Alpecin-Deceuninck cyclist finished the 187.3-kilometer route from Orleans to Saint-Amand-Montrond just ahead of Eritrea's Biniam Girmay and Germany's Pascal Ackermann.,It was the first stage win o...

Alex Bowman wins rain-shortened Grant Park 165 in Chicago
Alex Bowman stayed out on wet-weather tires and staved off Tyler Reddick's last-lap push Sunday to win NASCAR's time-limited, rain-shortened Grant Park 165 at the second Chicago Street Race in Chicago.,Bowman's No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet restarted with 4 1/2 minutes left and beat Reddick ...

T1 defeats Top Esports to win Esports World Cup
T1 took down Top Esports 3-1 in the grand final of the Esports World Cup's League of Legends tournament on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,T1 won the inaugural event and will bring home $400,000 of the $1 million prize pool. Top Esports settled for a $200,000 second prize.,For the second straight ro...

Hawks sign No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher
The Atlanta Hawks signed the No. 1 pick of this year's NBA Draft, Zaccharie Risacher, the team announced Saturday.,Per team policy, no further details of the deal were disclosed. Spotrac predicted Risacher's deal to be for four years at $57.2 million.,Risacher -- who was born in Spain but grew up in...

Shane van Gisbergen seeks second consecutive win in Chicago Street Race
In the nation's Second City this weekend, standout road racer Shane van Gisbergen will be seeking his own second -- another NASCAR Cup Series win.,When the Grant Park 165 takes the green flag Sunday for the second running of the Chicago Street Race, all eyes will be on the New Zealander's return eng...

Utah football No. 1 in Big 12 preseason poll
Utah could begin its first season in the Big 12 with a bang.,The Utes were picked to finish first in the conference's football media preseason poll, released Tuesday. Utah, moving from the Pac-12, garnered 20 first-place votes (906 points), followed by Kansas State (19 first-place votes, 889), Oklah...

Braves knock off Cardinals 6-2 in opener of twin bill
Jarred Kelenic went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and RBI single to drive the visiting Atlanta Braves past the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 in the first half of a split doubleheader Wednesday,Zack Short reached base three times and drove in two runs for the Braves, who have won nine of their last 12 games...

Christopher Bell wins in New Hampshire on wet-weather tires
In one of NASCAR's strangest days ever, Christopher Bell turned in the best performance in a historic wet-weather tire shootout, winning the Cup Series' rain-plagued USA Today 301 in overtime at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday in Loudon, N.H.,Tyler Reddick's No. 45 Toyota led at Lap 220 befor...